Consultant offers state marriage advice

Feb. 6, 2013

Written by

Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana could increase its marriage rate and reduce the number of out-of-wedlock births if it made it harder to get a divorce and less financially attractive for unmarried women to have children, a national marriage consultant said today.

Mike McManus, columnist and cofounder of Marriage Savers with his wife, Harriet, recommended to the Louisiana Commission on Marriage and Family that it support possible legislation similar to what's being proposed in Missouri.

That legislation, which McManus said is to be introduced by Missouri Speaker of the House Timothy Jones, ...